| After Post Mod Collapses |
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| Global Warning | |
| Written by Lisa Jain Thompson | |
| Saturday, 08 July 2006 | |
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Springfield, Virginia, USA. When catchy academic phrases bring the laughter they deserve instead of doctorates, and discussions of gender’s performative nature and normative conception become nostalgic trips for aging university feminists,
 post-modern’s inherently anti-intellectual philosophy will collapse under its own weight like some ill-constructed third world high rise where the money goes into politician’s pockets instead of good steel.You can safely ignore the previous sentence since I have been told on good authority that words have no meaning, facts do not exist, and the physical reality of the universe around me is non-existent.
I’m not making up this stuff.
Have you ever argued with a postmodern, under educated, enthusiast? This is how they argue:
If you do attempt to carry on a discussion with a postmodern enthusiast, you will soon find yourself accused of defending the establishment (which is usually labeled sinfully capitalistic). If you continue to question them or ask them to define their terms, you will shouted down and sent to Coventry, having been found unworthy of their attention.  Michel Foucault, a postmodern visionary, believed that there are no facts and everything (life, the universe, science and medicine) is interpretation.
Whether intentionally or not, the postmodern culture fosters a self-indulgent subjectivity where nothing is real except what the postmodern enthusiast wants.
And so, tumbling down this rabbit hole, we find ourselves stuck in the morass of the “Gender Spectrum.” Male and female do not exist (quit peeking at your crotch). Everyone is what they say they are, no more or less. Tomorrow may be different.
No one seems to know what “transgender” means except everyone prefers being transgendered to being a queer or a fetishist. In this world, sexual genitalia are societal impositions and gender identity is a political construct.
The mention that scientific and medical research would suggest otherwise is treated like blasphemy and the person who uttered the fatal words brain structure, chromosome activation, and fetal development is deemed, at best, a victim of brainwashing and, at worst a lackey of the establishment whose only concern is keeping the oppressive male power structure in place.
 But discussion? Compromise? Actual accomplishments that make gentle the way of the world?That would be too much like work and might require they define their terms or learn the rules of logic, or worse yet, admit the world actually exists.
Post-postmod cannot occur too soon (although I suspect they will invent a new catchy term for it that they will then refuse to define). |
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